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Information is extracted in real time, speeding up the process to approve or to ensure medical necessity is met, says Dr. Traci Granston, VP of clinical strategy at Cohere Health.
Automated electronic PA process uses FHIR interoperability for greater efficiency, says Greg LeGrow, executive director of Payer Product Market Strategy at athenahealth and Mark Fleming, senior director of Product at Availity.
Cody Coonradt, CEO and founder of Billy, discusses how patients, advocates and insurance agents use the company's app, which displays hospital pricing data by location, to negotiate prices for medical procedures.
Oron Afek, CEO of Vim, works on the provider side and Ashok Chennuru, global chief data and insights officer at Elevance Health, works on the payer side toward scaling artificial intelligence for automation.
Alberta Spreafico, senior vice president of health innovation at Eversana, explains how the company, along with the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, analyzes, maps and reports on reimbursement frameworks in Europe for digital therapeutics.
Greg Surla, senior vice president and chief information security officer for FinThrive, explains why the Change Healthcare cyberattack was a watershed moment and how federal cybersecurity performance goals tie into redundancy essentials.
Sal Lo, CEO of Jorie AI, talks about how the company's automated claims adjudication product reduces administrative workload and helps healthcare organizations, including the VA, speed up eligibility verification and claims processing.
Burnout, staffing and employee issues need to be addressed in a less fragmented way, says QGenda Chief Innovation Officer Rich Miller.
David Wolf, MedeAnalytics AVP, and Lynn Carroll, HSBlox COO, discuss their companies' collaboration, which will help healthcare payers and providers streamline data sharing and stakeholder communication as they adopt new reimbursement models.
Ryne Natzke, chief revenue officer at TrustCommerce, a Sphere company, talks about how digital tools can provide patients with customized payment plans for unexpected bills and treat them with dignity along their financial journey.
MA plans will need to measure performance ahead of 2027 when CMS will start rewarding plans that demonstrate progress in addressing health disparities, says Anna Basevich, SVP of Enterprise Partnerships and Customer Enablement at Arcadia.
The model allows for a gradual approach to risk for more conservative and less experienced ACOs, in comparison to ACO REACH, which requires a greater tolerance for risk but has more rewards, says David Morris, EVP at Cedar Gate Technologies.